CULT:HYB: early germination as a reselect

hey gang,

I have a sprout. (this is my first germination! <grin> you should have seen
me bouncing around the house when I found the little white pimple on the
seed..)  It sprouted last Monday and so far is just root, but it is already
a full week ahead of any other.

Given that there has been some discussion on getting earlier germination and
earlier bloom, I wondered if anyone has done any breeding with early
germination as a reselect criteria.  I was thinking that if you took say the
first five germinants (out of a crop of seeds of approximately equal ages)
and set them aside, then when they bloomed did crosses between them, and
reselected for the first five germinants from each of those crosses and
crossed among them.... etc, ad nauseum,  wouldn't that tend to move your
germination dates back?

Of course I realise that that wouldn't work for breeders who feel like they
are working in a time crunch and just want to speed up the mechanics of the
crosses they are already making....

Just a thought...
Christian
ky

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